RH Line calls printed August 23

"It's too bad we don't have a true conservative in the City Council race. Let's see if the tea party can come up with a candidate."

Visitor Center

"Why is it that anytime government -- be it federal, state or city -- is involved in anything, they mess things up? I'm afraid the same thing will happen with the Visitor Center. "

West Nile Danger

"Being a West Nile survivor from 2003 -- I almost died from it -- I'm still waiting to see the mosquito truck come around to spray the neighborhood over by Hickory Drive. I pay for it every month and have not seen it in the last two years."

Pro-Life Stand

"I have to take exception to the Republican stand that they are pro-life. They are really not pro-life. They are pro-birth, but once that child is born, they could really care less about it. They want no social nets, no safety social nets, to take care of that child. They could care less about that child has nourishment, health care, it's raised by a loving family, has an education -- all of that is immaterial to them. Their job is to get the child born, then they care less about it. So they are not pro-life, they are pro-birth. There is a huge difference."

VocationalEducation

"The school board for the R2-J district has for many years short-changed those high school students who are not college-bound. I hope that the new superintendent will install a program through all of the high school of a vocational curriculum that will help students who are not college-bound to find some other avenue in a career field."

Entitlements

"I think people need to look up 'entitlements' in the dictionary. It means just what it sounds like: something that one is entitled to. Too often, the jeers seem to imply that people want something for nothing. But in the case of Social Security and Medicare, people are entitled to it because they have been paying for it for their entire lives."

Thank You, Habitat

"I just want to thank Habitat for all the work they've done on our house, the roof, the gutters, the painting, the windows. It's just wonderful how they come in and fix things up that needs to be done that you can't afford to do when you're elderly like I am and just can't do it. I want to thank them from the bottom of my heart. And God bless them."

Walk-AroundAlcohol

"Allowing people to wander around downtown Loveland drinking and carrying open containers is a very idiotic and irresponsible plan to revitalize downtown. Next suggestion will be to allow open-carry on guns. Nothing like turning a wonderful city into something out of the Old West. Rundown and empty buildings that are eyesores and a lack of businesses that would attract shoppers are the problem. You'd think that after at least 20 years of paying consultants megabucks plus suggestions from the city and others during that time that they would have figured this out."

"All I have to say is that walking around with beer is not letting the kids know that it is OK to drink, considering that kids watch TV a lot nowadays and commercials of beers stress they have to be 21 to drink it and to drink it responsibly. If you're an adult, you're over 21 and you want to walk around downtown with the beer, you should be able to. Plus, there shouldn't be any children around at nighttime where most of the drinking would be. And if your kid is out there, then you should be more concerned about that than whether they know it's OK to drink or not. Plus alcohol is legal, so it is OK to drink."